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On the fairest time of June
You may go, with sun or moon, 20
Or the seven stars to light you,
Or the polar ray to right you;
But you never may behold
Little John, or Robin bold;
Never one, of all the clan,
Thrumming on an empty can
Some old hunting ditty, while
He doth his green way beguile
To fair hostess Merriment,
Down beside the pasture Trent; 30
For he left the merry tale
Messenger
for spicy ale.
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Infanta
My
inclination
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Le chapeau a la main il entra du pied droit
Chez un tailleur tres chic et fournisseur du roi
Ce commercant venait de couper quelques tetes
De mannequins vetus comme il faut qu'on se vete
La foule en tous sens remuait en melant
Des ombres sans amour qui se trainaient par terre
Et des mains vers le ciel pleins de lacs de lumiere
S'envolaient quelquefois comme des oiseaux blancs
Mon bateau partira demain pour l'Amerique
Et je ne reviendrai jamais
Avec l'argent garde dans les prairies lyriques
Guider mon ombre aveugle en ces rues que j'aimais
Car revenir c'est bon pour un soldat des Indes
Les boursiers ont vendu tous mes crachats d'or fin
Mais habille de neuf je veux dormir enfin
Sous des arbres pleins d'oiseaux muets et de singes
Les mannequins pour lui s'etant deshabilles
Battirent leurs habits puis les lui essayerent
Le vetement d'un lord mort sans avoir paye
Au rabais l'habilla comme un millionnaire
Au dehors les annees
Regardaient la vitrine
Les mannequins victimes
Et passaient enchainees
Intercalees dans l'an c'etaient les journees neuves
Les vendredis sanglants et lents d'enterrements
De blancs et de tout noirs vaincus des cieux qui pleuvent
Quand la femme du diable a battu son amant
Puis dans un port d'automne aux feuilles indecises
Quand les mains de la foule y feuillolaient aussi
Sur le pont du vaisseau il posa sa valise
Et s'assit
Les vents de l'Ocean en soufflant leurs menaces
Laissaient dans ses cheveux de longs baisers mouilles
Des emigrants tendaient vers le port leurs mains lasses
Et d'autres en pleurant s'etaient agenouilles
Il regarda longtemps les rives qui moururent
Seuls des bateaux d'enfants tremblaient a l'horizon
Un tout petit bouquet flottant a l'aventure
Couvrit l'Ocean d'une immense floraison
Il aurait voulu ce bouquet comme la gloire
Jouer dans d'autres mers parmi tous les dauphins
Et l'on tissait dans sa memoire
Une tapisserie sans fin
Qui figurait son histoire
Mais pour noyer changees en poux
Ces tisseuses tetues qui sans cesse interrogent
Il se maria comme un doge
Aux cris d'une sirene moderne sans epoux
Gonfle-toi vers la nuit O Mer Les yeux des squales
Jusqu'a l'aube ont guette de loin avidement
Des cadavres de jours ronges par les etoiles
Parmi le bruit des flots et des derniers serments
ROSEMONDE
A Andre Derain
Longtemps au pied du perron de
La maison ou entra la dame
Que j'avais suivie pendant deux
Bonnes heures a Amsterdam
Mes doigts jeterent des baisers
Mais le canal etait desert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouverent
Celle a qui j'ai donne ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heures
Je la surnommai Rosemonde
Voulant pouvoir me rappeler
Sa bouche fleurie en Hollande
Puis lentement je m'en allai
Pour queter la Rose du Monde
LE BRASIER
A Paul-Napoleon Roinard
J'ai jete dans le noble feu
Que je transporte et que j'adore
De vives mains et meme feu
Ce Passe ces tetes de morts
Flamme je fais ce que tu veux
Le galop soudain des etoiles
N'etant que ce qui deviendra
Se meme au hennissement male
Des centaures dans leurs haras
Et des grand'plaintes vegetales
Ou sont ces tetes que j'avais
Ou est le Dieu de ma jeunesse
L'amour est devenu mauvais
Qu'au brasier les flammes renaissent
Mon ame au soleil se devet
Dans la plaine ont pousse des flammes
Nos coeurs pendent aux citronniers
Les tetes coupees qui m'acclament
Et les astres qui ont saigne
Ne sont que des tetes de femmes
Le fleuve epingle sur la ville
T'y fixe comme un vetement
Partant a l'amphion docile
Tu subis tous les tons charmants
Qui rendent les pierres agiles
Je flambe dans le brasier
Je flambe dans le brasier a l'ardeur adorable
Et les mains des croyants m'y rejettent multiple innombrablement
Les membres des intercis flambent aupres de moi
Eloignez du brasier les ossements
Je suffis pour l'eternite a entretenir le feu de mes delices
Et des oiseaux protegent de leurs ailes ma face et le soleil
O Memoire Combien de races qui forlignent
Des Tyndarides aux viperes ardentes de mon bonheur
Et les serpents ne sont-ils que les cous des cygnes
Qui etaient immortels et n'etaient pas chanteurs
Voici ma vie renouvelee
De grands vaisseaux passent et repassent
Je trempe une fois encore mes mains dans l'Ocean
Voici le paquebot et ma vie renouvelee
Ses flammes sont immenses
Il n'y a plus rien de commun entre moi
Et ceux qui craignent les brulures
Descendant des hauteurs
Descendant des hauteurs ou pense la lumiere
Jardins rouant plus haut que tous les ciels mobiles
L'avenir masque flambe en traversant les cieux
Nous attendons ton bon plaisir o mon amie
J'ose a peine regarder la divine mascarade
Quand bleuira sur l'horizon la Desirade
Au-dela de notre atmosphere s'eleve un theatre
Que
construisit
le ver Zamir sans instrument
Puis le soleil revint ensoleiller les places
D'une ville marine apparue contremont
Sur les toits se reposaient les colombes basses
Et le troupeau de sphinx regagne la sphingerie
A petits pas Il orra le chant du patre toute la vie
La-haut le theatre est bati avec le feu solide
Comme les astres dont se nourrit le vide
Et voici le spectacle
Et pour toujours je suis assis dans un fauteuil
Ma tete mes genoux mes coudes vain pentacle
Les flammes ont pousse sur moi comme des feuilles
Des acteurs inhumains claires betes nouvelles
Donnent des ordres aux hommes apprivoises
Terre
O Dechiree que les fleuves ont reprisee
J'aimerais mieux nuit et jour dans les sphingeries
Vouloir savoir pour qu'enfin on m'y devorat
RHENANES
Nuit rhenane
Mon verre est plein d'un vin trembleur comme une flamme
Ecoutez la chanson lente d'un batelier
Qui raconte avoir vu sous la lune sept femmes
Tordre leurs cheveux verts et longs jusqu'a leurs pieds
Debout chantez plus haut en dansant une ronde
Que je n'entende plus le chant du batelier
Et mettez pres de moi toutes les filles blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliees
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre ou les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refleter
La voix chante toujours a en rale-mourir
Ces fees aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'ete
Mon verre s'est brise comme un eclat de rire
Mai
Le mai le joli mai en barque sur le Rhin
Des dames regardaient du haut de la montagne
Vous etes si jolies mais la barque s'eloigne
Qui donc a fait pleurer les saules riverains?
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_ That _I_ shall stand sole exile finally,--
Made desolate for
fruition?
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In fact the
satyr stands between
Gilgamish
and Ishara(?
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The title-page states that it
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'The Poems of D.
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MOPSUS
"For Daphnis cruelly slain wept all the Nymphs-
Ye hazels, bear them witness, and ye streams-
When she, his mother,
clasping
in her arms
The hapless body of the son she bare,
To gods and stars unpitying, poured her plaint.
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"
The lofty song (for paleness o'er her spread)
The nymph suspends, and bows the languid head;
Her falt'ring words are breathed on plaintive sighs:
"Ah, Belisarius, injur'd chief," she cries,
"Ah, wipe thy tears; in war thy rival see,
Injur'd Pacheco falls despoil'd like thee;
In him, in thee dishonour'd Virtue bleeds,
And Valour weeps to view her fairest deeds,--
Weeps o'er Pacheco, where, forlorn he lies
Low on an alms-house bed, and
friendless
dies.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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Even at the very start my
strength
fails:
What will become of me before it's all over?
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And at your door, you
discovered
me;
And at your heart, I sobbed .
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" 's a cuckoo sang
That's unco easy said ay;
The poets, too, a venal gang,
Wi' rhymes weel-turn'd and ready,
Wad gar you trow ye ne'er do wrang,
But ay
unerring
steady,
On sic a day.
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He met within the
murmurous
vestibule
His young disciple.
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The subject,
and some lines of the original version, having been
suggested
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poet's friend, Mrs.
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In costly sheen and gaudy cloak arrayed,
But all afoot, the light-limbed matadore
Stands in the centre, eager to invade
The lord of lowing herds; but not before
The ground, with
cautious
tread, is traversed o'er,
Lest aught unseen should lurk to thwart his speed:
His arms a dart, he fights aloof, nor more
Can man achieve without the friendly steed--
Alas!
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"
Neptune alarm'd, with instant speed commands
From ev'ry shore to call the wat'ry bands:
Triton, who boasts his high Neptunian race,
Sprung from the god by Salace's[408] embrace,
Attendant on his sire the trumpet sounds,
Or, through the
yielding
waves, his herald, bounds:
Huge is his bulk, deform'd, and dark his hue;
His bushy beard, and hairs that never knew
The smoothing comb, of seaweed rank and long, }
Around his breast and shoulders dangling hung, }
And, on the matted locks black mussels clung; }
A shell of purple on his head he bore,[409]
Around his loins no tangling garb he wore,
But all was cover'd with the slimy brood,
The snaily offspring of the unctuous flood;
And now, obedient to his dreadful sire,
High o'er the wave his brawny arms aspire;
To his black mouth his crooked shell applied,
The blast rebellows o'er the ocean wide:
Wide o'er their shores, where'er their waters flow,
The wat'ry powers the awful summons know;
And instant, darting to the palace hall,
Attend the founder of the Dardan wall;[410]
Old Father Ocean, with his num'rous race
Of daughters and of sons, was first in place.
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Of every lady I
despair!
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Troubador Verse |
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NO sooner one among the flock had made
The step, of which the Abbess was afraid,
But other sisters followed in the train:--
Not one behind
consented
to remain;
Each forward pressed, in dread to be the last;
At length, from prejudice the Abbess passed;
To such examples she at last gave way,
And, to a youth, no longer offered nay.
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Eternal Nymph, you're the grace
Of my
ancestral
place:
So, in this fresh, green view,
See your Poet, who brings
An un-weaned kid to you,
Whose horns, in offering,
Bud from its brow in youth.
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GD} Los now repented that he had smitten Enitharmon he felt love
Arise in all his Veins he threw his arms around her loins To heal the wound of his smiting
They eat the fleshly bread, they drank the nervous [bloody] wine *
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At least our envious Foe hath fail'd, who thought
All like himself rebellious, by whose aid 140
This
inaccessible
high strength, the seat
Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
He trusted to have seis'd, and into fraud
Drew many, whom thir place knows here no more;
Yet farr the greater part have kept, I see,
Thir station, Heav'n yet populous retaines
Number sufficient to possess her Realmes
Though wide, and this high Temple to frequent
With Ministeries due and solemn Rites:
But least his heart exalt him in the harme 150
Already done, to have dispeopl'd Heav'n,
My damage fondly deem'd, I can repaire
That detriment, if such it be to lose
Self-lost, and in a moment will create
Another World, out of one man a Race
Of men innumerable, there to dwell,
Not here, till by degrees of merit rais'd
They open to themselves at length the way
Up hither, under long obedience tri'd,
And Earth be chang'd to Heavn, & Heav'n to Earth, 160
One Kingdom, Joy and Union without end.
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For this marvellous tale we are
indebted to
something
like accident: Francis Grose, the antiquary,
happened to visit Friar's Carse, and as he loved wine and wit, the
total want of imagination was no hinderance to his friendly
intercourse with the poet: "Alloway's auld haunted kirk" was
mentioned, and Grose said he would include it in his illustrations of
the antiquities of Scotland, if the bard of the Doon would write a
poem to accompany it.
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' Thus had he spoken;
when from beneath the sanctuary a snake slid out in seven vast coils and
sevenfold
slippery
spires, quietly circling the grave and gliding from
altar to altar, his green chequered body and the spotted lustre of his
scales ablaze with gold, as the bow in the cloud darts a thousand
changing dyes athwart the sun: Aeneas stood amazed at the sight.
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Petrarch |
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Yet fairer when with wisdom as your shield
The sober-suited lawyer's gown you donned,
And would not let the laws of Venice yield
Antonio's heart to that
accursed
Jew--
O Portia!
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Wilde - Poems |
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I shook my head, and moved myself away;
Then, from the copses, and from secret caves
Hid in the wood,
methought
a ghostly voice
Came forth and woke an echo in my souls
As in the hollow of an amphora.
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_ Dictionary of
National
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To him the monarch: "That our army bends,
That Troy
triumphant
our high fleet ascends,
And that the rampart, late our surest trust
And best defence, lies smoking in the dust;
All this from Jove's afflictive hand we bear,
Who, far from Argos, wills our ruin here.
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Yes, but you will
My noble grapes, an if my royal fox
Could reach them: I have seen a medicine
That's able to breathe life into a stone,
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary
With
spritely
fire and motion; whose simple touch
Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,
To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand
And write to her a love-line.
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, _in a gracious,
friendly
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But confess that in this temple
All the stairs are
slightly
awkward.
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With the
abolition
of private property, then, we shall have true,
beautiful, healthy Individualism.
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what hand can pencil guide, or pen,
To follow half on which the eye dilates
Through views more
dazzling
unto mortal ken
Than those whereof such things the bard relates,
Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?
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But
Sarrazins
are not at all afraid.
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Chanson de Roland |
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Time
consumes
words, like love.
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Well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most
notorious
geck and gul
That e'er invention play'd on?
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He laughed--the
gauntlet
trembled at his stroke.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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HOLY THURSDAY
'Twas on a holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean,
The
children
walking two and two, in red, and blue, and green:
Grey-headed beadles walked before, with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Paul's they like Thames waters flow.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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All, all; their cause
Is fallen flat; but go you on and see
How
wonderly
their proud heads are elate.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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For an ingenious explanation of this
disputed
word see
Professor Pearce's article in _Mod.
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Beowulf |
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Oh, Thou who hast
darkened
the Tarn!
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Kipling - Poems |
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The babe unborn:
But, won by Venus' voice and thine,
Relenting
Jove Aeneas will'd
With other omens more benign
New walls to build.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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EXULTATE
DEO.
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VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:
Make sweet some vial;
treasure
thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-kill'd.
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Now will I seek again to bring to mind
How porous a body all things have--a fact
Made
manifest
in my first canto, too.
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All have not appeared in the form of
snowflakes
but many have been tamed by the Finnish or Lapp sorcerers and obey them.
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Appoloinaire |
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As also it is
divinely
said of
Aristotle, that to seen ridiculous is a part of dishonesty, and foolish.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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mi_ O
CIV
Credis me potuisse meae
maledicere
uitae,
ambobus mihi quae carior est oculis?
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Latin - Catullus |
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) Where are the lips mine lay upon,
1
1
Audiart, Audiart,
Audiart, Audiart
Signum
Nativitatis*
II
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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[Note 22: Refers to two of the most
interesting
productions of
the poet.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Ta
poitrine
sur ma poitrine,
Melant nos voix,
Lents, nous gagnerions la ravine,
Puis les grands bois!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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The
Macmillan
Co.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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It may be remembered, in connection with Wordsworth's text, that he
himself said, "I am for the most part uncertain about my success in
altering poems; but, in this case" (he is
speaking
of an insertion) "I
am sure I have produced a great improvement.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Already the venom flows towards my heart,
An
unaccustomed
chill pierces my dying heart: 1640
Already I see as if through a clouded sky,
Heaven, and a husband my presence horrifies.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, when, in June,
Tall
chesnuts
keep away the sun and moon:--
I rush'd into the folly!
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Keats |
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Thou, like the dying Swanne, didst lately sing
Thy
Mournfull
Dirge, in audience of the King; 30
When pale lookes, and faint accents of thy breath,
Presented so, to life, that peece of death,
That it was fear'd, and prophesi'd by all,
Thou thither cam'st to preach thy Funerall.
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John Donne |
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TO INDIA
O young through all thy
immemorial
years!
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Si com' fui dentro, in un
bogliente
vetro
gittato mi sarei per rinfrescarmi,
tant' era ivi lo 'ncendio sanza metro.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Such was the hapless chance, most beautiful Laodamia, 105
Tare fro' thee dearer than life, dearer than spirit itself,
Him, that husband, whose love in so mighty a whirlpool of passion
Whelmed thee absorbed and plunged deep in its gulfy abyss,
E'en as the Grecians tell hard by Pheneus of Cyllene
Drained was the marish and dried, forming the fattest of soils, 110
Whenas in days long done to delve through marrow of mountains
Dared, falsing his sire, Amphtryoniades;
What time sure of his shafts he smote
Stymphalian
monsters
Slaying their host at the hest dealt by a lord of less worth,
So might the gateway of Heaven be trodden by more of the godheads, 115
Nor might Hebe abide longer to maidenhood doomed.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Cantered
so far, he came to Sarraguce.
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Chanson de Roland |
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I saw them next on a
triumphal
car,
Where, known by her chaste cherub ways, aside
My Laura sate and to them sweetly sung.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He from the
wondering
furrow called the food,
Taught to command the fire, control the flood,
Draw forth the monsters of the abyss profound,
Or fetch the aerial eagle to the ground.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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With
midnight
always in one's heart,
And twilight in one's cell,
We turn the crank, or tear the rope,
Each in his separate Hell,
And the silence is more awful far
Than the sound of a brazen bell.
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Wilde - Poems |
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The chosen angels, and the spirits blest,
Celestial
tenants, on that glorious day
My Lady join'd them, throng'd in bright array
Around her, with amaze and awe imprest.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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_Male perfumes_,
perfumes
of the best kind.
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Robert Herrick |
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Not all the gold, that is beneath the moon,
Or ever hath been, of these toil-worn souls
Might
purchase
rest for one.
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Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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"Fair Hermes, crown'd with feathers, fluttering light,
I had a splendid dream of thee last night:
I saw thee sitting, on a throne of gold,
Among the Gods, upon Olympus old,
The only sad one; for thou didst not hear
The soft, lute-finger'd Muses chaunting clear,
Nor even Apollo when he sang alone,
Deaf to his throbbing throat's long, long
melodious
moan.
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Keats - Lamia |
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And when the summer's breezes beat,
Methought
I saw the sunny street
Where stood my Kate.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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But the Pasha's
attention
is failing,
O'er his visage his fair turban stealeth;
From tchebouk {13a} he sleep is inhaling
Whilst round him sweet vapours he dealeth.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
Then he cried aloud, "Who dwells in this place,
discourse
with me to
hold?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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And,
according
to information, it has
been shown that he, the accursed Grishka, has fled to the
Lithuanian frontier.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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" or the like; that go a-begging for
some meaning, and labour to be
delivered
of the great burden of nothing.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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"
"Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee,
Yea, I have thirsted for thee,
Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee:
Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee,--
Through death's
darkness
I look and see
And clasp thee to Me.
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Christina Rossetti |
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"
So all the
children
of each family thanked their parents; and, making in
all forty-nine polite bows, they went into the wide world.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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--the day when Laura ceased
To adorn the world, about her
thronging
press'd,
Replete with wonder and with holy love.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Explicit
prohemium
Tercii Libri.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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rowe,
2220 & wyth
quettyng
a-wharf, er he wolde ly3t;
[E] & sy?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you should hold it in your hands";
(Slowly twisting the lilac stalks)
"You let it flow from you, you let it flow,
And youth is cruel, and has no remorse
And smiles at
situations
which it cannot see.
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T.S. Eliot |
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FINIS
Joachim du Bellay
'Joachim du Bellay'
Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance
- P.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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"But you--
"You don green
spectacles
before you look at roses.
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Stephen Crane |
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If you received it
on a
physical
medium, you must return it with your note, and
such person may choose to alternatively give you a replacement
copy.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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50 a year
Address: 622 South
Washington
Square, Philadelphia
"The contents are of very good
quality indeed.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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_"
[The second and fourth verses are by Burns, the rest is very old, the
air is also very old, and is played at trade festivals and processions
by the
Corporation
of Tailors.
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Robert Burns |
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I turned my head back to
Fengxiang
County,1 late in the day its banners appeared and faded from view.
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Du Fu - 5 |
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120
"Do
"You know
nothing?
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Two hundred years and more, I understand,
He has gone forth and conquered many a land,
Such blows hath borne from many a trenchant lance,
Vanquished
and slain of kings so rich a band,
When will time come that he from war draws back?
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Chanson de Roland |
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'Such has been the
felicity
of my life,' he
said to Mr.
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James Russell Lowell |
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welcome with
mischaunce
now!
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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She is strangely ashamed
Of
Holofernes
having evilly used her.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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EJC}
Travelling in silent majesty along their orderd ways
In right lined paths outmeasurd by
proportions
of weight & measure number weight
And measure.
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Blake - Zoas |
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Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy;
White privets fall, dark
hyacinths
are culled.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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